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Four lectures given as part of an endowed Lectureship on Christian Sociology at Philadelphia Divinity School. Washington's two lectures concern the economic development of African Americans both during and after slavery. He argues that slavery enabled the freedman to become a success and that economic and industrial development improves both the moral and the religious life of African Americans. Du Bois argues that slavery hindered the South in its industrial development--leaving an agriculture-based economy out of step with the world around it. His second lecture argues that Southern white religion has been broadly unjust to slaves and former slaves and how in so doing it has betrayed its own hypocrisy

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I. The economic development of the negro race in slavery, by B.T. Washington.--II. The economic development of the negro race since its emancipation, by B.T. Washington.--III. The economic revolution in the South, by W.E. Du Bois.--IV. Religions in the South, by W.E. Du Bois.--Notes to chapters III and IV (Bibliography: p.220-222)

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